bluffy

Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.

adj. Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having the character of a bluff; precipitous or steep.

Inclining to bluffness in appearance or manner.

Etymologies

bluff +‎ -y (Wiktionary)

Examples

Going at good speed as ever, in a few minutes they arrive at the confluence of the _arroyo_ with the greater river; the former here running between banks less "bluffy" than above, where it passes the cavern.

The trail had left the woodland far to the eastward, and wound its way over broad prairie billows, past bluffy-banked streams, along crests of low watersheds, until at last it slid down into an open endlessness of the

Not far afield on either hand came the black corn-land, but up and down the bluffy sides of the brook for some distance on both sides of the King-dragged highway, ran the old wood-lot, now regaining much of the unkempt appearance which characterized it when Jim Irwin had drawn upon himself the gentle rebuke of Old Man Simms for not giving a whoop from the big road before coming into the yard.

The latter are uniformly rock bound, frequently bluffy or precipitous, from 20 to 1,500 feet in height, with generally very limited borders of level country, the base of the steep mountains reaching down to the sea, with but narrow foothill slopes.